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Mark Crumpacker, chief marketing & development officer of the eco-conscious, fast-casual restaurant chain, declined to say which networks he's been talking to, but he did say that going with an advertising-supported broadcaster would be "problematic," thanks to the show's scathing critique of food-industry practices. That could turn off advertisers, particularly those connected in any way to the Big Food -- which is a lot of advertisers. So maybe HBO (TWX) or Showtime (CBS)? He wouldn't say, though the tone of the show is in line with some of the shows that appear on those networks, such as Veep on HBO. The decision on whether to continue the miniseries -- which ends on a somewhat ambiguous note -- will hinge in large part on how well it does on Hulu, the Internet video service owned by several big media companies.
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It is also, like all good satire, sweeping to the point of unfairness, and because of that, some of the criticism has been quite vehement. The show amounts to "a smear campaign against America's farmers," according to Ted Sheely, a California farmer and keeper of the blog The Truth about Trade and Technology. He hammers on the fact that Chipotle's aim is to enhance its corporate image and draw more business. Again, Crumpacker asks, what's wrong with that? If nobody knew who was behind the show, "nobody would have figured out it was us," he said.
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Sheely and other critics have called the series "propaganda," a harsh-sounding word that might also be accurate, if it means that the motives Chipotle's motive is self-interest. Neither Crumpacker nor Piper deny the criticism, but they do insist that quality was their top priority. When making decisions on the script, Piper said, "we always picked what was more entertaining over what points we wanted to get across."
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The announcement came in a March 29 letter written by National Park Service Regional Director John Wessels addressed to Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), who previously expressed concerns about a proposed ban on guided climbing in the wilderness zone.
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The draft plan includes one option to eliminate commercial climbing in one zone of the park known as the Inner Canyon Wilderness Zone, while commercial guiding would continue to be permitted in other areas of the park. But after hearing Udall's concern over the commercial climbing ban in the Inner Canyon Wilderness Zone, Wessels stated his department decided to hold off on that option for now.
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Martha Snyder—Administrator-Operations Director
Cindi Leo-Gofta—Chief Nurse Executive
Rose Anderson—Environmental services coordinator
Mindy Bonnett—Dietitian and Medical Nutrition Therapist
Denise Carey—Certified Dietary Manager/Food Protection Professional
Allen Cress—Resident Care Coordinator
Lori Linnenbrink--(Recreation Therapy Coordinator)
Ginny Rymer--Neighborhood leader for Ivy Lane (memory support).
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Tibbi Webb—Care Coordinator-weekends
Kris Mallett—Care Coordinator-weekends/nights
Christine Bates—Care Coordinator (nights)
Loretta Siegele—Coordinator of spiritual care
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Dorie Drey—Coordinator of staff education.
Donna Striplin—Coordinator of MDS assessments (long term care)
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Climate justice and energy program highlights
An excellent example of our work to empower communities is the Movement of Victims Affected by Climate Change in Central America (MOVIAC) initiative, which continued in 2009. As part of this, more than a hundred representatives of Central American movements, organizations and networks, met in June, in El Salvador. MOVIAC is an invaluable and inspirational component of the Affected Peoples Campaign. Many other FoEI member groups are now inspired to create similar national and regional grassroots movements with affected communities.
FoEI's work with affected communities also included the Climate School: Building and Mobilizing Climate Justice, which took place on 24 March 2009, in Medellin, Colombia, within the framework of the actions against the Inter-American Development Bank's 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting, also in Medellin. In addition, a series of community exchanges between communities in Central America has enabled 120 individuals to live in and exchange experiences with other communities challenged by climate change.
FoEI has also focused on developing and deepening key alliances, in order to contribute to building a diverse, effective and global movement for climate justice and energy sovereignty. For the CJE Program this has involved working closely with key social movements such as La Via Campesina and the World March of Women, throughout the year. In particular, we agreed to cohost a joint assembly at Klimaforum09 in Copenhagen, to advance the design of a political agenda that would allow us to move forward in mobilizing and organizing the defence of land. Additionally, we enhanced our cooperation with other coalitions and strategic alliances including Indigenous Peoples' organizations, Jubilee South, the Global Forest Coalition, Jubilee South, the Durban Group, REDLAR and others.
Key moments in the evolution of these alliances in 2009 included:
- An event, "Talks between Environmentalists and Indigenous Peoples," at the World Social Forum, 31 January 2009, Belem do Para, Brazil. Organized by FoEI and the Global Forest Coalition, these strategic talks between Indigenous Peoples and environmentalists, with over 100 participants, allowed us to advance in the establishment of political agreements and strategic actions to build climate justice and to fight against the exploitation of nature.
- "Environmentalists and Indigenous Peoples united for Climate Justice," at the Foro Andino, in Colombia, 18-19 March 2009. Organized by Friends of the Earth, this event also strengthened the developing relationship between environmentalists and Indigenous Peoples from the Andean region including the U`wa, Wayuú, Nasa, Misak, Quichua and Aymara. The focus of the meeting was the impact of climate change on Indigenous Peoples' lands and the need to move forward with a shared strategy and joint actions for climate justice.
- The 5th REDLAR Mesoamerican Conference, Boquete, Panama, 22-25 April 2009. FoE was able to promote the idea of combining Energy Sovereignty, Climate Justice and buen vivir (literally 'good living') to the 264 representatives from Mesoamerica and other areas of the continent. This latter concept is central to the social movement and Indigenous Peoples in America, and is referred to as Abya Yala.
- 1st Continental Summit of Indigenous Women of Abya Yala and the 4th Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala, in Puno, Peru, 27-31 May 2009. Together with over 5,000 attendees, Friends of the Earth participated in talks, workshops and meetings at both summits. This was an excellent opportunity to contribute to the establishment of the concept of buen vivir and to strengthen ties and move forward with strategies for climate justice.
- Friends of the Earth also participated in the Asia Pacific Peoples' Solidarity for Climate Justice organizing meeting, to contribute to preparations for the week of civil society activities that took place in parallel to the Bangkok UNFCCC intersessional meeting, 28 September to 9 October 2009.
- At the 1st International Climate Justice Tribunal, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 14-16 October 2009, FoEI presented a case about sugarcane cutters in South-western Colombia to the tribunal, contributing to the debate on environmental crimes, the climate and environmental debt. This case was the direct result of an international mission for the verification of agrofuels in Colombia, which FoEI organized in July 2009, with the participation of more than 40 international delegates. The mission visited five regions in Colombia which have been severely impacted by the expansion of sugar cane and palm oil to produce agrofuels.
- The months preceding COP-15 in Copenhagen involved extensive and improved collaboration with social movements - especially Via Campesina and the World March of Women - and other civil society organizations, around plans for Copenhagen, including the joint Klimaforum events, mobilizations and media work. FoEI also participated in Climate Justice Action preparations, and organized and participated in a Climate Justice Now! strategy meeting in Bangkok in October.
In 2009 FoEI's campaigning on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations involved the production and distribution of a substantial number of policy proposals and analyses in the run-up to COP-15 in Copenhagen. A new and rapidly developing focus in this respect is climate finance, a cross-cutting campaign being run with FoEI's Economic Justice Resisting Neoliberalism (EJRN) program. We developed a robust position paper in collaboration with campaigners from the EJRN campaign, which formed the foundation for much of our campaigning before and during Copenhagen. FoEI also began to contribute to the climate finance debate within the climate justice movement. Nearly 10,000 copies of our climate finance materials, "Financing Climate Justice: Ensuring a Just Agreement on Climate Change," and "Financing Climate Justice: Summary of Demands and Ethical Criteria Matrix" were distributed in Copenhagen, in English, French and Spanish. FoEI's ethical criteria matrix provides governments with a set of criteria for judging climate financing mechanisms proposed during negotiations.
Thousands of copies of our 2008 publication "REDD Myths: a critical review of proposed mechanisms to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries" were also re-printed and distributed in Copenhagen, as was "Voices from communities affected by climate change." In addition, 5,000 copies of the popular FoEI newspaper, "Climate Justice Times," were also distributed.
The joint efforts of FoEI and key allies has helped to ensure that a number of governments, such as Bolivia, have officially voiced their concerns about the potential negative impacts of UNFCCC, World Bank and national policies to finance Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD), especially if REDD is used to support plantations and is funded through carbon markets. As a result of lobbying by FoEI and allies, the UNFCCC's REDD draft reflected these concerns. A key element in this effort was a side event on the potential impacts of REDD on Indigenous Peoples' rights and biodiversity and the risks of GE trees, on 3 June, parallel to the meetings of the Subsidiary Bodies to the UNFCCC in Bonn. This was co-organized with the Global Forest Coalition and the International Alliance on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forest. Many FoEI member groups have also been informed and thus enabled to participate in national REDD policy discussions currently underway.
During the year we also produced a video trilogy, "Towards Solutions on Sustainable Energy Practices". In addition, we distributed and publicized a Friends of the Earth Europe Study entitled "The 40% Study: Mobilizing Europe to Achieve Climate Justice," which shows that domestic emissions cuts of at least 40% in Europe by 2020 are both feasible and affordable.
This research, combined with our advocacy activities, also allowed us to be particularly effective in persuading governments in many countries in the global North to introduce binding climate change laws that will help to reduce those countries' carbon emissions. This was especially the case in Europe where FoE has focused on its Big Ask campaign: France, Scotland and the UK passed climate change laws setting emissions reductions targets, and it seems likely that similar laws will soon be passed in a number of other European countries including Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Ireland and Slovenia.
Other member groups have also been very active on climate change. In March 2009, for example, FoE Japan organized an international workshop on climate change impacts and solutions faced by developing countries, with presentations from the Japanese government, the World Bank and several international organizations. FoEI's involvement focused on showing how climate change and its false solutions are a result of the current neoliberal production and consumption model.
Although Copenhagen was an abject failure, it was a key moment in the intergovernmental debate on mitigating and adapting to climate change, because of the urgent need to agree and develop a successor to the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol before it expires in 2012. FoEI took a team of 400 activists to Copenhagen: some of them were engaged in lobbying and advocacy work within the Bella Center, whilst others were focused on the daily mobilizations and alternative events, including the Klimaforum, which were so important to ensuring governments heard the critical voices of civil society.
From the talks in the Klimaforum, demonstrations on the streets, and actions in the conference centre, the message was loud and clear: any climate agreement must be based on climate justice. This was an important development: before Copenhagen the term 'climate justice' was much discussed in civil society meetings but more-or-less unknown elsewhere. During Copenhagen on the other hand, it began appearing frequently in the mainstream media.
We promoted the development of many actions/spaces for campaigning and mobilizing during COP-15 and Klimaforum09. This included FoE Europe's work developing the Flood for Climate Justice, an extremely successful demonstration which more than 5,000 people from many countries participated in. The event also involved mock carbon traders trying to sell carbon offsets to protestors, and a fake carbon stock exchange. It ended in front of the Danish Parliament with the creation of a massive human banner reading "Offsetting is a false solution."
FoEI also drew public attention to our positions and alternatives for sustainable livelihoods through both traditional and new creative media activities and actions. During Copenhagen, we posted 37 blog entries and 9 videos on FoEI's You Tube channel, and 300 high-quality images on Flickr. Prior to Copenhagen, we created a website to feature the Angry Mermaid Award which included an animation story on the effect of corporate neglect of climate change on communities in the South: the website had 23,851 views. In Copenhagen's Klimaforum09, we presented an interactive Climate Capsule installation with videos, photos and drawings from around the world. We also conducted outreach on climate change during the international tour of the rock band Radiohead, and produced the graphic novel "Speechless" about the history of economic globalization.
A further key objective for the CJE program is to stop World Bank pollution of the climate debate. During 2009 we continued to monitor and conduct advocacy around the World Bank's framework on clean energy investment and the emission-trading schemes promoted by IFIs. In September we organized a public forum on climate debt alongside the Intersessional Meeting on Climate Change in Bangkok, and a public forum on climate change and financing. FoEI was co-organizer of an international meeting on Financing Strategy and Climate, along with other networks and organizations including Jubilee South, Focus on the Global South, and Oilwatch. FoEI also supported the production of the FoEI Asia Pacific (APac) region's first climate publication, "Climate Impacts of the ADB's Business: How the Asian Development Bank Finances Climate Change."
FoE also participated in the civil society campaign to stop governments subsidizing the climate-wrecking fossil fuels industry. In April 2009, we published Public Money for Fossil Fuels in the EU and three EU Member States, to identify the many sources of public investments in harmful industries. In 2009, both the G-20 and the UN made agreements to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels, which will have a positive impact on policies regarding renewable energy.
Some FoE groups are also focusing on private finance and its role in driving climate change. FoE Netherlands, for example, has conducted research into systems for measuring carbon footprints, which was presented during a Banktrack meeting for private banks in Washington. The Climate Working Group of banks involved in the Equator Principles is now organizing workshops to develop and implement such a methodology. The outcome of our activities is that among these banks the question is not 'whether' or 'why' they should measure carbon footprints, but 'how'. FoE Netherlands has also convinced private banks in the Netherlands to commit to improving their energy-related investment policies.
The Climate Justice & Energy Program working areas are:
- Energy sovereignty
- Climate and finance / Carbon and forest markets
- UNFCCC (including REDD), and
- Stopping World Bank pollution of the climate debate.
Cross campaign areas include:
- With the Forests and Biodiversity Program - the REDD campaign
- With the Forests and Biodiversity Program, the Food Sovereignty Program, and the EJRN Program - Agrofuels
- With the EJRN program - Financing and Climate, particularly building a common position at the federation level, including on carbon markets and the Clean Development Mechanism
Coordinators and participants
In 2009, the co-coordinators of the Climate Justice & Energy (CJE) Program were:
- Hildebrando Vélez and Irene Vélez, FoE Colombia
- Joseph Zacune, FoE EWNI
- Stephanie Long, FoE Australia
The CJE Steering Group included:
- For ATALC: Eduardo Giesen, FoE Chile,
- For Europe: Sonja Meister, FoE Europe,
- For Africa: Michael Keania Karikpo, FoE Nigeria
- For North America: Karen Orenstein, FoE US
Groups that participated actively in the CJE Program in 2009 included: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Belgium (Flanders and Brussels), Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, England, Wales & N Ireland, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay and the US.


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Many TV shows have had memorable theme songs, but few were as innovative as the eerie Doctor Who theme. Composed by Ron Grainer (who also wrote the themes for such classic 1960s shows as Steptoe and Son and The Prisoner), it was arranged and mixed by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The Workshop pioneered electronic music in Britain, and Derbyshire's arrangement (using electronic oscillators, tape loops and reverse tape effects) was unlike anything ever heard... READ ON
You can't forget the great Christmas songs, movies and television specials. But what of the wonderful, heart-warming Christmases you spent with Archie, Richie Rich, Mickey Mouse and Little Lulu? Even super-heroes sometimes take a break from clobbering super-villains at Christmas. Here are some of the classic holiday stories that have made their way into the comics over the years.
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In the 1940s, The Adventures of Superman was a radio sensation. Kids across the country huddled around their sets as the Man of Steel leapt off the page and over the airwaves. Although Superman had been fighting crime in print since 1938, the weekly audio episodes fleshed out his storyline even further. It was on the radio that Superman first faced kryptonite, met Daily Planet reporter Jimmy Olsen, and became associated with "truth, justice, and the American way." So, it's no wonder that... READ ON
As an Australian, I'm greeted with open arms whenever I go overseas. It's great to be liked"¦ but though I hate to admit it, there are a few things people get wrong about us. I'm afraid I don't have a pet kangaroo, I don't live on a wide-open Outback farm, I don't eat copious amounts of Vegemite, and I don't greet everyone by saying "G'day, mate." Some Aussies do those things, I'll admit, but most of us don't. While... READ ON
For over a century, movie stars have brought countless screen heroes to life "" but of course, there has usually been a slight gap between the actors and the heroes they played. Yes, we know that a third of Angelina Jolie's income goes to charity, that Sean Penn took a canoe to help Hurricane Katrina victims, and that Tom Cruise once stopped to help a hit-and-run victim and paid her hospital bills. Nonetheless, most famous actors have been normal people like everyone else. But just so you... READ ON
World War II Bulgaria didn't have a Schindler, and it didn't have a list. It had a white-bearded mystic named Peter Deunov and an entire nation standing behind him. Together, they saved Bulgaria's 48,000 Jews from the Holocaust.
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"Death comes in threes" is a popular maxim. In the world of fame and celebrity, however, it seems that death usually comes in twos. Some unusual duos have died on the same day: Mahatma Gandhi and Orville Wright, Jayne Mansfield and Primo Carnera, Luis Bunuel and David Niven. A few months ago, I looked at some uncanny celebrity birth twins. Here are some of those who were linked by death.
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Many famous actors aren't satisfied with their stardom, and they want to do something more. Over the years, a handful of actors have truly made a difference in the world "" and in some cases, they did so in ways that you wouldn't expect. From inventors to troublesome mistresses to Kevin Bacon, here are seven examples.
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In recent months, some popular comic-book super-heroes "" including Batman, the Martian Manhunter and the Wasp "" have died in the line of duty. Yeah, right. Death means nothing for super-heroes, who have a habit of returning to life in various inventive ways. Here are some of the most memorable examples.
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TULSA, OK – He's laced up the skates for 13 CHL seasons and more than 700 games, but Tyler Fleck isn't ready to call it a career.
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Last season, Fleck played in all 66 games for the Oilers. He chipped in three goals and five assists while anchoring Tulsa's defensive unit and serving as a constant presence on the Oilers penalty kill.
"Because I was healthy throughout last season, I feel good and I still feel like I can help this team and contribute," said Fleck. "I know Rammer is going to bring in some new talent, we've got a good group of guys coming back and it's going to be an exciting year to be a Tulsa Oiler."
"Tyler is a great leader and one of the best veteran players in pro hockey," said Oilers Head Coach Bruce Ramsay. "There is no one more dependable than Flecker and I've never seen anyone who can block a shot with any part of his body."
Since arriving in Tulsa midway through the 2009-10 season, Fleck has been an ironman for the Oilers. He has a current streak of 142 consecutive games played and last season he became only the fifth player in league history to play in his 700. The Carlyle, Saskatchewan native wore the "C" on his sweater last season and takes his role as Oilers captain very seriously.
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The 1965 Voting Rights Act sought to correct a historic wrong. For much of the 100 years following the end of the Civil War, the South had acted as if it had actually won the war. It resisted extending the full rights of citizenship, including the vote, to African-Americans. Those states had placed all manner of barriers between blacks and the ballot box. When blacks resisted this injustice, they were met with terrorism, both from individuals and representatives of state and local governments.
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act required stricter Justice Department scrutiny over voting in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, Alaska, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia, as well as parts of California, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York and South Dakota.
The law has been renewed by Congress several times since 1965. Yet, last week the Supreme Court — in a case brought by Alabama's Shelby County — pondered if special protections over voting rights in certain parts of the United States are necessary in 2013. As Chief Justice John Roberts put it during Wednesday's oral arguments, "Is it the government's submission that the citizens in the South are more racist than citizens in the North?"
We see no explicit harm in discussion of the fundamental protections provided by the Voting Rights Act.
In fact, we imagine what the Supreme Court justices would have learned had they spent last Wednesday touring Alabama, one of the places that once made life a living hell for African-Americans seeking the vote.
They wouldn't see any violence visited upon black Alabamians as was so often the case in the 1950s and 1960s as the civil rights struggle gained steam. The streets of Birmingham, Montgomery and Anniston are free of the strife, dogs and firehoses that harmed Alabama's reputation.
Had the justices made a stop in Anniston last Wednesday, they would have seen self-appointed black leaders protesting what they termed local corruption. Yet, what's missing is strong evidence to support the protesters' laundry list of complaints. We imagine Justice Roberts or Justice Antonin Scalia lending an ear to these fevered conspiracies and asking, "Is that all you've got?"
Yet, had the court then traveled to Montgomery, they would have seen a voter-ID law set to take effect in 2014. The law will almost certainly make it difficult for Alabamians on the margins of society to vote starting next year. Two possibilities emerge for why the Legislature's Republican majority passed its voter-ID law.
In one possible scenario, Montgomery took an ahistorical view of the state's sordid reputation when it comes to voting, which includes poll taxes, literacy tests and other means meant to stealthily deny African-Americans access to the polls. In the other, Alabama joined the many other Republican-dominated legislatures, including virtually all from the South, that aggressively sought to tamp down turnout of voters who typically favor the other political party. In a state where there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, we can't see any other possibilities.
Which brings us back to the complicated evidence before the Supreme Court. Acts of terrorism against African-Americans seeking to vote have disappeared from the South. Poll taxes are gone, thanks to the federal government. Yet, Southern statehouses don't offer us much confidence when it comes to protecting access to the ballot box for all eligible voters. The court has much to ponder over the coming months. The justices' first priority should be not undoing decades of progress by striking down the Voting Rights Act.


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I have thought about getting rid of a couple of my Inquisition albums but their newer album seems to be good material for when I have females over. I guess from a production stand point its quite good and the riffs are really memorable and it's easy listening.
Having reviewed the thread, baby Jesus is most definitely weeping at this point.
DLA bands I don't really bother with anymore: Antaeus, Behemoth, Niden Div 187, Sorcier des Glaces.DLA bands I could never really get into anyway: Absu.
I'm gonna sound like an elitist for this but if you don't like Worship Him and Blood Ritual you're probably some mallcore kid who expects every BM band to sound like Dark Funeral (because that was generally my attitude until I learned to appreciate the slower Hellhammer inspired riffs, hurrr) Needless to say I ignore the industrial output by Samael.
I used to adore the pants off of Beyond Sanctorum by Therion. However I keep getting hung up on all the block head chugga chugga filler riffs. Half of this album is solid gold, the rest is aggravatingly pedestrian
I was raped as a child many times, but I eventually grew to like it.
So what albums did you get rid of?
Quote from: Walt on September 09, 2012, 06:56:10 AMI used to adore the pants off of Beyond Sanctorum by Therion. However I keep getting hung up on all the block head chugga chugga filler riffs. Half of this album is solid gold, the rest is aggravatingly pedestrianNot much filler on this classic, Beyond Sanctorum is natural selection itself, building from simple elements an architectural narrative of imagery that transcends genre.It's not stylistically novel by today's standards but then, when choosing a riff, the best metal would rather eschew the most attention grabbing for one that fits the greater purpose of composition and, that word again, narrative.I'd give it another bash or seven before dumping it.http://www.amazon.com/review/R31SCFU7UNRMPL
Quote from: Parasite on September 06, 2012, 11:52:14 PMSo what albums did you get rid of?Basically anything that wouldnt qualify as classic/near-classic status after a certain point. I simply dont have time for anything less these days. Of particular note would be the first two by Napalm Death, post-Legion Deicide, Summoning (minus their 3 best works), post-In the Nightside Eclipse Emperor, Krieg and any French LLN bands etc. One might add that some of these are ok but when I only listen to 1-2 albums every couple of days its naturally not going to be sub-par stuff (if metal at all). Other stuff like early Napalm Death was enjoyed at the time but now seems thoroughly transient (Oddly enough I still get a lot out of Ildjarn).So why do I torture myself with a trip into the city, knowing Ill have to endure interaction with the most appalling examples of hipsters and other neurotics, in the end getting maybe $30 total for these little treasures I collected in my teens (obviously before internet eliminated the risk of chance-buying). Well, perhaps Im lazy and impatient, not being bothered to list them on discogs.com, getting rid of one at a time over the span of several months (or years more likely). But I also need space in my CD rack to put something better. I also hope these albums might serve as a stepping stone to the person that buys them, or that by chance they would trace it back to better works if they find something in it.
Which 3 Summoning's would you consider the worthy ones? I assume Nightshade Forests for sure but feel the other two could go anyway between Dol Guldur, Stronghold, Minas Morgul, or Oath Bound.
Quote from: jcpcc14 on September 19, 2012, 04:28:36 PMWhich 3 Summoning's would you consider the worthy ones? I assume Nightshade Forests for sure but feel the other two could go anyway between Dol Guldur, Stronghold, Minas Morgul, or Oath Bound.I would guess Minas Morgul, Dol Guldur and Oath Bound. No Nightshade Forests.


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